Lasciate Ogne Speranza
Trento, Italy
I arrived in Trento on Saturday night after an all day trip through Düsseldorf, Venizia, and Verona. Next time I’ll take the train through München. I had an absolutely fantastic pizza with tomato sauce, fresh basil, mozzarella di bufala, dizzled with a reduced balsamic vinegar at Anfiteatro, a new restaurant. Sunday it rained but I did some indoor and underground archaeological tourism and visited the cathedral.
During the week I was busy with a program at ECT*, but also had a free Friday afternoon and evening. I returned to Anfiteatro to have the pizza, but accidentally walked into their grand opening! They had a free buffet with a free glass of wine, and live music. The food was delicious—some kind of roasted pork, a variety of roasted and pickled vegetables, fried dough of some kind—but I kind of wished for that pizza! The musician performed popular and classic English-language songs. He could sing but sprinkled every song with mondegreens, which I found amusing at first and distracting by the end.